Finding the Groove

I mentioned in an earlier post that I had a few books I wanted to get written this year. Frankly, though, our business is taking off and putting enormous demands on our time, and that time sink is only going to get deeper. So, I'm going to have to consider the possibility that I might only get one or two books done this year. I'm just not sure which ones I want to get done. Should I stick with fantasy? Go back to science fiction? Maybe do some more of my steampunk superheroes? Or go back to where it all began, and write another Cameron Vail mystery?

Ideally, I want to do all of those this year. Realistically, there's just no way I can do it and get anything remotely resembling actual sleep at the same time. So, I'm going to have to pick and choose.

A mystery is actually not that difficult to write; I wrote the second one, The Missing Magnate, in eleven days while working at a full-time job. I literally wrote it in between customer service calls, completely off the top of my head. So, that's very doable.

For fantasy, I have three different series that I want to continue: The Shadowmage, for which I already have the full ideas sketched out for the second book; Meterra, my first fantasy series, for which the books are generally shorter; and the Gemswords, which has been my dream for an epic fantasy series with a bit of a twist.

Science fiction? I've only done the one book, Bard Conley's Adventures Around the Solar System. The advantage of science fiction is that I'm not limited to any particular theme; I could do another Bard Conley book, or just go in a completely different direction.

Steampunk superheroes is something I would like to keep going with; it's not a common subject, and while I'm not doing actual comic books with artwork, I can still tell the stories in a pulp style. Of course, I would be continuing in the Gilded Age, where I started off with Awakening and continuing the stories of the new breed of enhanced people (and animals).

So, any suggestions from the readers? If you've read any of my stuff, let me know what you thought, and what you'd like to see more of. If you haven't, I've got links to six of my books above to get you started. I do want to get back into the writing groove, and while I can't commit to the schedule I was hoping for, I can at least get something done and published in 2026.